The-Leader_1978-05-04

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BALDWIN
ROOSEVELT
MERRICK
FREEPORT'S
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NEWSPAPER
' 43rd YEAR No. 1 FREEPORT. NEW YORK. MAY'4,* 1978 PRICE 15« PER COPY
Candidates Night
FREEPORT - A School Board'
candidates nigfit is being held by
TASCA (The Atlantic South Civic
Association) Tuesday. May 9.
8:30 pm, in the Giblyn School
.Cafeteria, on South Ocean Ave­nue
and Cedar Street.
Candidates George Boululcos
and Bernard Ostrofsky. who are
running for the seat presently.
Held "by .Harold - Leyine,
been invited to speak.
The_meeting is open to;..the
public. ,' ...;•-
Board Takes First Siep
For So/e^ Of 73 Aci^
FREEPORT -A first step hasbeen t^ken in the posjablc future sale
of land in Bemrington Park for private development, At the weekly
Village Board "meeting-Monday night. May 1,"Mayor William White
and three of the^trusteeslAl Sirjin was not present) voted Jo liistruct
^.„.^ thervlllage's Director of Community Development, to-prcpare legal
have'documents prior to'adv'ertising for a public'hearing on the sale of the
village-owned "lan'd to Vomado.
.RECOGNIZE ANY FAMILIAR FACES??? you>e"fT8M"That Is Mayor
Bill White standlng^on the second step along with Bob Kranzler
.(bottom 8tep)..Frank Ripi (third step) and l?ay Fellman (top^tep). They
were all memtjers of the Clarinet Quartet in 19424n the Free'port'Htgh
.School Band. The four are justa few of.the alumni who will be return­ing
June.10 for the Ail->yuriihlBarid Concert under the direction of J.
Maynard "Prof Wettlaufer, music director.of'thVFHS Bands" from
._1936--t964 .Tlie All-Alurnni Band.^ncert will be heldin the Freeport
High School auditorium at 8 pni. " "~~^~':- :" _."'
Commissions Hold
g : p . i i l O p ^ Meetings^
jT; . . -FREEPORT-Under the Open
Meetings (Sunshine)'Law.-T-the^
public may attend, but not
.partidpateliwthe scssidits held:-;
'" byrlf^ variqifrTboaf&2!*n3 '^nr„ '
_. missions of (he Village govern­ment.
All meetings, • unless.
.otherwise noted', are held on the
-^second floor of Village Halli 46'-
"North Ocean Avenue.- Those
attending qthet than the meetings
- --of the..Board of Trustees and the
Zoaihg Board -of Appeals'must
--"enier"Village Hall through-the
Freeport Police Station, where
they will be required to sign in
and out as the meetings are held
after norxna! business ^ours and''.
.the building is officially closed. .
The normal schedule of the •
Boards and Commissions has the 7
Plumbing "^Bdani meeting • the .
third Monday of the month, 8 pm;
Planning Board, .second and .
fourth- Tuesdays;- -ST15 pm._
Environmental Commission..first
Wednesday, 8 pm; Sewer, and
Sanitation Commission, first and
third-Thursdays. 8 pm; Human
. Relations- - Commission^
—FREEPORT - Figures just released by Natss^ County will result in a -Thursday!—BHS—pm;-ri
Inc. That comjjany. is-the parent
"IfinJP^ny of Two Guys Depart-
Iment '^ores. which hjtve pro­posed
to'buildon the site.'
White, mentioned that ^-rthe
Board had met,with_representa-
_Iiyes_of_yomado. and their
- attorney William Lavallcerthe.
Monday night beTgre, April 24. A
public hearing, he later said, was
still several months away.
'!:.Several.iTLbhths |Lgo..woi(i that.
"Two Guys ^r,\yoolcO;:rV£Srs. pro-
BosingTCtmild a discount store on'
the,13-acre urban renewal site. ,
WHS followed-by-niescihants and
Freeport Chamber of Coniiiierce
representatives attendinga Board
m'eeiing on March -20. Most' of
those present calledihe coming of
a discount store on that location
disasterous /or the SI.7 million
new Freeport Mall - — -
'. The. land being considered-for
sale lies several blocks west of tlie
Mall and is situated befS'^e'eh'Sirn'-"
rise Highway and Merrick Road.
. ' ^ Other Matters
The open session of the Board
-lasted only 20 minutesr During'
that timer^he-Board voted rdTell
about 60 feet-village-owned land *^
^at the Gordon Place turnaround to
Fred Chall Marina. The buyer vJill-pay
$2,000 for the lanrf. whlch'is "
zoned Residence AA. The Board -
-rioted that the.maHna's noncon-forriiing
use - would- not. be ex-^,
tendedTo-the new,piccc-of prop—
cny and that certain-conditions,
would hav.i:ioJ(>c ipet. Within 60
days.of the transfer.of th^ proper- -
^ty, F'red Chall-Martn? would have
to blacktop the land, fence it
ktid . tmprove-i-^it. "The _moncy "
^ realized by the sale of the land —__
though it would go into the yll;^
lagc's.General Fund — will be ~
used, ffie Board agreed, to im-'
prove the riemai;ider of -the .
village-owned property rat the
site. ChaH'VduId'"use his-newly-acquired
p'arcel to give him access .
to the rest of htypropcrty. .'_J
. Flr»1nipeetlonr" - '--'T'^"'"
At fhis'siiggestionif the Free-port~
Fire"Conncil'and with the~
agreement of village Superin­tendent
of Buildings Louis Bellor
a volunteer unit from the Freeport
Fire "Department will do villagc-
(Cont. on Page 13) • —
isiew Assessment Will —^-^
Lower School Tax Increase By 6.*"~ i
. decreasein the tax rate for the 1978-79 school budget. According to4he
i^reeport Sc'hoor Board, the assessed; valuation", of the "district is
$270,000 more than the gnginal figures'received from"the County. This
wiir reduce the tax-rate ftora the initial proposal o£98.8^ to 92.8* per
$100ofassessed valuation. . .-.- ' " ' ' " "~
-.."Tbc news of the reduction,
made public, this week, came too
late to beliiduded in the presea-
Ttatiotimade by ihe Sdiool Board
' last "Wednesday night,.Apri] 26,
at its annual-budget meeting. "
— jAt-_theJ.meeting; .the Board.
-dtsclotad that' -J- not 'w^Mi^infc
Commission, second and fourth
Thursday's, 8 pm; • Park Com-'
mission, first and.third Thuts>v
daysr. 8-pm, at .Freeport Recre-
—"- '—ratioa. Center; Water .anid
President t John' -j&iliy, - and .1 Cdmnijssicrir. - second" Thursday,
succeeded.-llin bringing-^lhe .•»pnl.»^'t^i>wer Plant #1 on Sun-budget
in under adollar;" (3) al- " nse Hi^way^and the Electncal
though one lalwr contracTiias yet Board, first Wednesday, 8 pm. at
io bersettled.rthere is no asterik —*^^^?.^?li^^L " v 2^ : ^^^
in the budget" meaning J^thkt. ^ .^«= Vdlage Board of Tr^ees
: i^ording .to Reilly, ""we feel •. F"'^ ^^^ Monday at 7:30 pm
'i.flSAirtflfliiAt.i|yffAi'iH^afnf^h<. ' in Bpgn votxaa-M
- • - • - - - - • • ., at .whicthe ttioa
w.
!!!!?^^.*!°"Zi^l°!hl^!jy^ '^'"^^^^ ^"'- ""''^"es. at.whicti residents may
(THE .LLEEAADDEERR. .-.llaatteerr lleeaarrnneedd. .;:;r -•hi.'^v H ;. „«i !. -^^^^l- " 8, pm on the. first Md .thirdv
"; howievKTr that'witfa transportation
rthe raahdaitei} total comes'to 72*).
it; ."the way it is now is just the" . - . . , . - ..
way it's going to s\xf%^ •--'.' '• ••: Mondays. PuWic hearings'; put:
" I^CSBitejhese pbiiits.lft'e bud- 'Specific matters are -held-a^;;
..^^. er—-- —.. ... .. -—^ij^aHy-advertised in-The teadcf.- "
pages
questioning:* the_;
' sound of thumbed paper was only '-
liiterraittenQy ; interrupted by
t,.,«„.f:-!-„,i,«.-i..-»,-„-,_f«».-. qiieriesonthcaJstof5eIectricityat
^ - ' • " living has jumped 6.7%, IHe •""'^--
, the.- questions - an'rf boinplaiiits'-
-centered.j-instead, on the Bmita-tions-
Ieyied by Albany.,' •
~ —-> The Board opened the meeting
holiday or on the eve of a holiday.
Public meetings thus cancellal^
are held the following Mondafy."
-- The; Zoning Board of Appeals
usually Jiolds public hearings the
fourth Wednesday of eacfr moiith
the Pre-Kprogram.^legai- beginning at 8pOT
budget increase has been kept to
-t—5^.%;—{2)—theT-Board^—i^^d :=i
desiperafely,'-' in the words, of
services. Dimensidns-(the school
district • "newspaper")-—- arid
(Contlon Page 20) ':
THE LEADER will be notified
in advance :when. there" b any
change ^roft"lhc normal "schedule
and will inform its readers.
-YffVff°rr"?"1*"" y g ^ " " ' ^ '~'»«M«.n..lHh m.rhal.-manof<hg
Fceeport Ubris aiiiJ Blood DrWe.sfiar'es h{j aft8rnoorrwilh.4*«>-yeaf - /
old Brian Andujar^ a young victim of hemophilia, *id>o Ih^es on »nith -/•
' Street iri'Freepori. The Uons' Club Blood .drive will benefit children f
'/lifce Brian as welFas allowing "donors to know that they, therr~s'ppiJBej./
,i:lindren (iinder^lQ yearji of agefTparents and"jjrandparenU on botF^
'sides of.the family, cdh receWe^ unlimited amount of blood for o^ ;•
•^l,,;! ynf.r an f h^ havo in tin f^ ghf*> nnajlnt ortflood Thursday. >^
25,tjetween 4pmand.9pm/at theSalvatlon Armyroo CtwrcllSt^:.
The blood donated will provldejmportant insurance to h«mopi- .
•who are in constant need of blood to stay aljye.>oir Informatic;^
receivedpIeifge,conta<^Lou Neuwlrth,.432-Z32a. ~^ T"; ~